Join Dean Rickey Yada and LFS faculty, staff and students at the LFS Holiday Café!

In this online social, we will usher in the holiday season, and recognize outstanding service through our annual faculty, staff and graduate student awards.

Also… this is a riff off the usual LFS Research Café, where we typically learn about one of our faculty member’s research programs. As this year is unique in every way, our new faculty members who joined UBC in 2020 – Gurcharn Brar, Matias Margulis, Risa Sargent, Tamara Cohen and Thorsten Knipfer – will present in a quick-round Research Café.

Photos wanted!  We welcome any seasonal photos showing you, your ‘social bubble’ and pets getting into a wintery, holiday mode. If you want to be part of the LFS Holiday Café slideshow, email your pictures to Karen.lee98@ubc.ca before Monday, Dec. 14 with ‘Slideshow’ in the subject line.

We hope to see you there!  Send any questions to Karen.lee98@ubc.ca or eric.skalij@ubc.ca.

Zoom meeting link – LFS Holiday Café
Wednesday, December 16, 3:00-4:30 pm

https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68416237102?pwd=Nm9wbW91SlJ5blNNT3N0OFBJL3FDQT09

Meeting ID: 684 1623 7102

Passcode: 432308

 

Cheers,

Karen Lee & Eric Skalij (LFS Communications)

Duncan McHugh (LFS Learning Centre)

 

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Karen Lee  (She, Her, Hers)
Director of Marketing and Communications
Faculty of Land and Food Systems | Room 235
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
H.R. MacMillan, 2357 Main Mall | Vancouver British Columbia | V6T 1Z4 Canada
Phone 604 827 5297 | Cell 604 312 6343
karen.lee98@ubc.ca | @ubcLFS
http://www.landfood.ubc.ca

BC NEIHR Indigenous Graduate and Postdoctoral Funding

To develop research skills and assist with student burdens related to financial, family, community and cultural responsibilities, the BC NEIHR supports Indigenous (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) graduate students and postdoctoral fellows by annual competitions for Master’s and Doctoral scholarships and biennial (every two years) for Post-Doctoral fellowships.

Master’s Scholarship Program

The BC NEIHR launches an annual competition for nine (9) Master’s Scholarships valued at $17,500 each. Each year, recipients are invited to a Learning and Sharing Circle (with funded Indigenous communities, collectives and organizations), where they present their work and speak about their participation in this Scholarship program.

Value: $17,500 for 1 year
Application Deadline: 15 January 2021

Doctoral Scholarship Program

The BC NEIHR launches an annual competition for three (3) Doctoral Scholarships valued at $35,000 each. Each year, recipients are invited to a Learning and Sharing Circle (with funded Indigenous communities, collectives and organizations), where they present their work and speak about their participation in this Scholarship program.

Value: $35,000 per year for up to 2 years
Application Deadline: 15 January 2021

Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

The BC NEIHR launches a competition for Postdoctoral Fellowship(s) every two (2) years. Should more funds become available, additional fellowships may be awarded. Recipients are invited to a Learning and Sharing Circle (with funded Indigenous graduate students as well as communities, collectives and organizations), where they present their work and speak about their participation in this Fellowship program.

Value: $59,398 per year (varying duration)
Application Deadline: 15 January 2021

For more information, including application procedures and detailed eligibility requirements, please see https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/bcneihr/graduate-and-post-doctoral-funding/.  Questions about these opportunities should be directed to the Network Coordinator at bcneihr@uvic.ca. 

On Behalf of the LFS Graduate & Postdoctoral Office

To:  LFS Graduate Students

We hope this email finds you well.  It’s hard to believe we’re coming to the end of another year, but what an interesting year it’s been!

We wanted to inform you of a new program starting this month.  The LFS Graduate & Postdoctoral Office will begin offering mandatory annual Academic & Wellness Check in’s with all research-based students (these check-in’s are also available for all professional program students as well, although not mandatory).  These individual zoom meetings will cover several topics including academic progress, funding, and wellbeing.

As access to our office has been restricted due to COVID,  it’s important that you feel supported by us and that you are aware of resources and services available to you, even if most of you still aren’t on campus.

Students can book their appointment through Canvas (instructions are attached).  At present, there are a limited number of appointments available this month to accommodate those students who may have pressing issues.  There will be additional appointments scheduled in the new year.

We hope you will find these meetings valuable.  Please don’t ever hesitate to contact us if you need anything.  We are here to help you.

Sincerely,

Sean, Shelley and Lia

The LFS Graduate & Postdoctoral Office

Thank you for your prior support in distributing the APBI Diversity and Inclusion Survey across the program, as a follow up to that survey we are now conducting focus groups to allow participants to elaborate on topics and themes in the survey or speak freely to the topic. Once again, I would like to ask for your help in distributing the following survey that allows students to sign up for focus group time slots.

At this time we are hoping to reach undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in a related Applied Animal Biology Program. I have attached both the recruitment advertisement as well as the consent cover letter. Please feel welcome to send to any person that this is relevant to.

The survey to sign up for time slots can be accessed here: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2udkzjObKP1i537

Consent Cover Letter – The Diversity Engagement Focus Group

Recruitment Advertisement – Diversity and Inclusion Focus Group

Thank you kindly,

Nadia

 

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Nadia Xenakis

MSc Student | Animal Welfare Program

The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus

(778) 881-7036 | nadiax@mail.ubc.ca

 

GradUpdate In this issue, interviewing & negotiating, free statistics consulting, part-time work opportunities, Foundations of Pedagogy, writing communities, and more. *NOTE*: GradUpdate will be taking a holiday and will be returning in early January!

Seats still available

 

Interviewing & Negotiating Wednesday, Dec 9 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM Learn more

Additional Events and Opportunities

 

The following highlights some upcoming events. Please find more on community.grad.ubc.ca and grad.ubc.ca/current-students/professional-development

ACADEMIC SUPPORT AND SUCCESS

 

Free Statistics Consulting Submit a project by early Jan for a Stats 550 case study Learn more or, one hour of free consultation via the SOS program.

CAREER EXPLORATION

 

CWSC Part-time Term 2 work Opportunities Apply by Dec 11 | Writing Consultant and Project/Writing Coordinator positions Learn more Community-based Digital Literacy Assistant with UBC Learning Exchange Apply Now | Work Learn Position Learn more

RESEARCH SKILLS

 

Open Education Resources, Research Commons Check out this page for handouts and materials from sessions on citation management, Literature Reviews, NVivo, R, GitHub and more.

TEACHING DEVELOPMENT

 

The 2020 Online CTLT Winter Institute Dec 14 – 18 | A week of free professional development workshops. View the full schedule and learn more here. Graduate Instructional Skills Workshops January 25, 30, February 3 & 6 | Submit registration request by Jan 20 Learn more February 16, 20, 21 & 27 | Submit registration request by Feb 10 Learn more Foundations of Pedagogy February to March online, one-term course | Register by Jan 6 Learn more

WRITING AND COMMUNICATION

 

Online Writing Community Wednesdays, Jan 13 – Apr 14 | 2:00 – 4:00 PM Learn more Write Now – Spring Session facultydiversity.org | Apply by Dec 16 for reduced fees | Jan 18 – Apr 11 Learn more